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Photo: Gregory Adams / Getty Images Scientists Just Figured Out Why Neanderthals Collected Rhino Teeth
They weren’t dummies who were smashing random objects together. They were creating things that helped create other things.
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Slim3D/Getty Images Researchers Think They Figured Out Why Neanderthals Went Extinct, and It’s the Wildest Theory Yet
New modeling suggests the real survival advantage wasn’t intelligence, but staying connected when things got rough.
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Mike Kemp/Contributor/Getty Images Scientists Figured Out How Smart Neanderthals Were (We Were All Wrong)
A new study suggests the supposed cognitive gap between Neanderthals and modern humans may have been wildly overstated.
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Photo: YakobchukOlena / Getty Images Why Do Humans Have Chins? We’re the Only Species That Does.
Chins are useless but they can make us look ridiculous if we have too much or not enough.
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A Neanderthal woman re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)
